The malaise in our education system is not the fault of our hard working teachers. For decades teachers have had to wrestle with the grandiose plans of each successive Education Secretary’s ideas for the curriculum. Policies change too frequently, just as it does in other departments. Successive political parties complain about the failure of our educational system by highlighting the deficiencies of school leavers - school leavers who have been failed by mis-guided ideological experiments in education. The average child spends eleven or so years in school, during which time successive Education Secretaries will have changed teachers’ working brief a number of times leading to loss of morale among teachers.

When the Education Secretary says that we need to improve the basic skills of reading, writing and maths, this is testimony enough that recent governments and opposition parties have failed to improve the education of the nation’s children. The malaise in our education system is manifest. What has our education system come to when employers don’t know if they can trust exam results and resort to their own methods of determining how to evaluate employees? Employers are unwilling to take on school-leavers because they are such an untested and uncertain entity.

We have governments who cannot run countries (Syria, Greece, Italy as well as Libya, Egypt, and the usual list of unaccountable governments), bankers who cannot run banks, schools which cannot educate pupils, parents who cannot rear children, carers who cannot care for the elderly, jurors who cannot keep to the rules, courts and politicians at loggerheads with each other, politicians who cannot draft comprehensive laws, and the list goes on.

Our society has dumbed down. Children know football scores, celebrity figures and the latest albums, proving that they have plenty of brain power, but they do not know their own language, their own history nor culture, and how to show respect to their neighbour. Our schools are failing our children, the rising generation and our society.

ExamplesInstead of concentration on the three R’s – reading, writing and arithmetic – schools are being used to sexualise our children. What has homosexuality got to do with mathematics? So why are homosexuality issues being proposed for Maths, Science and Geography lessons? 1+1 homosexual adults does not equal two, three, four or five children?

It is a manifest sign of our failed education system when the Holyrood government has a consultation on changing the definition of marriage. Which part of marriage do they not understand? Have they not been taught to look up dictionaries?

Rather it is time that the humanist agenda was challenged. It is time for Christians to vote to stop the marginalisation of Christianity.

However, it is not only Stonewall, but the Scottish Liberal Democrats manifesto advocates that “gay issues be taught in schools.” The BBC publicised the sanitised version of the Lib Dem Manifesto but The Sun drew attention to the small print. At this rate, your primary school children will be taught to explore their homosexual tendencies.

The Scout Association wishes to recruit more homosexuals, presumably to represent the 1% of the population who call themselves homosexual. The Scouts’ new teenage sex education programme plans to teach young Scouts to “feel what a condom is like”. What is the driving force behind this? Is it evidence of homosexual manipulation of yet another group in our society?